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Mitch McConnell Disagrees With Donald Trump’s Twitter Handle on Flag Burning

US President-elect Donald Trump speaks to the press with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, on Tuesday, used real words, said aloud, that fundamental component of human interaction, to disagree with the recent, seemingly extemporaneous stance on flag-burning taken by our soon-to-be twitterbot-in-chief, Donald Trump. “The Supreme Court has held that that activity is a protected First Amendment right,” McConnell told reporters. “In this country, we have a long history of protecting unpleasant speech.”

The Republican leader was compelled to defend the rights enshrined in America’s founding documents, because of this thought-fart the day before from president-elect Donald Trump.

Twitter policymaking is not a thing.